Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie AlendeDisney Hyperion, 2009 ISBN: 9781423108764 Availability: New and Used Alexis, a budding photographer and anti-popular-kids activist, lives in the oldest house in town. Like all old houses, this one has a long and strange history, and some very odd things begin to happen after a photo shoot in […]
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Book Review: ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley
April 3, 2018Little Brown Books Young Readers, 2008 ISBN: 9780316113571 Available: New Charlotte Usher is friendless. She wants to be noticed, but her classmates, including handsome, popular Damen Dylan, don’t know she’s alive. And then she chokes to death. Charlotte has unfinished business, though, and she ends up in Dead Ed with other teenage ghosts. She […]
Book Review: Demon Queen by Richard Lewis
March 27, 2018Simon and Schuster, 2008 ISBN: 9781416935896 Available: Pre-order (June,2008) Jesse has grown up in the foster care system, never knowing his real parents. Unfairly seized by Homeland Security, he is released to the Mindells, a foster family living in the town of Longview. As Jesse begins to settle into his new community, Honor Clarke […]
Book Review: Weregirls: Birth of the Pack by Petru Popescu
March 20, 2018Tor Teen, 2007 ISBN: 0765316412 Available: New Lily Willison and her friends Nikki, Arielle, and Grazia start up a girls’ soccer club at her school called the Weregirls. When the new girl, Andra Hewlit, senses that Lily has supernatural powers, she seeks to co-opt them and creates her own soccer club. Lily finds out […]
Book Review: Witch Hunter: Into the Outside by J. Z. Foster
March 15, 2018Witch Hunter: Into the Outside by J. Z. Foster CreateSpace, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1974522255 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Witch Hunter: Into the Outside by J.Z. Foster is a tongue-in-cheek, ghoulish farce. Richard, a picked-upon, chubby nebbish, is a member of a group of nerds dedicated to combating supernatural evil. He suspects that the members are only half […]
Sterling Publishing, 2006 ISBN: 9781402715150 Available: New This book is a good introduction for the reader getting ready to take on the intricacies of language in the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The book starts with a brief biography of the author and then leads the reader through five of Poe’s most famous short stories. […]
Candlewick Press,2006 ISBN: 0763629308 Available: New Maud Flynn is a troublemaking, unattractive, orphan: the girl most unlikely to be adopted. However, she is the perfect choice for Hyacinth Hawthorne and her elderly sisters. The charismatic Hyacinth convinces Maud to play the part of a ghostly “secret child.” The sisters, posing as psychic mediums able […]
Book Review: Blood Witch- Book Three of the Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan
February 27, 2018Penguin Group 2007 ISBN:9780142409886 Available: New and Used Morgan’s quest to learn more about her family, especially her mother, continues in Blood Witch. Now that Morgan has the Book of Shadows, she is able to read the words her mother wrote As Morgan continues to practice magick, other blood witches, threatened by her power strengthen their […]
Book Review: Coven- Book Two of the Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan
February 20, 2018Penguin Group, 2007 ISBN:9780142409879 Available: New and Used In a very short period of time, Morgan Rowland has lost her best friend, gained a boyfriend, and discovered that she is a blood witch. Does that means her parents and sister are blood witches as well, or is there more to her mystery? As Morgan uncovers […]
Book of Shadows-Book One of the Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan
February 13, 2018Penguin Group, 2007 ISBN: 9780142409862 Available: New Morgan Rowland’s life changes the day she met Cal Blair. When Cal comes to school that first day, his confidence in himself makes every girl want him and every guy want to be him. Cal’s interest, however, is in Morgan. He introduces her to Wiccan practices. Morgan finds […]